It is a cloudy early start to this Monday morning after a weekend of mild temperatures and fine weather.

Nice conditions to enjoy yesterday morning and this morning there's another 7cm of snow here at base and Madarao Kogen are reporting 5-10cm of fresh snowfall on the slopes.

I measure 18cm of fresh snowfall here at base this morning and Madarao Kogen is this morning reporting 20-25cm of fresh snow since yesterday on the mountain.

Some icy conditions yesterday but we do have some fresh snow this morning here in Madarao, I'm happy to report.

No new snow to report and it's going to be another of the milder days today.

It's going to be a great morning too, as we expected.

Yesterday I said that it should be a good morning - and it most certainly was. Beautiful weather to be outside sliding down the snow.

As expected, it's very mild this morning... +7 degrees warm!

Another 6cm of snow here at base since yesterday and calmer and somewhat clearer conditions as well.

Over 30cm of fresh since last night and really heavy snowfall at times. Like I said, just how we like it - there's been too few of those this season. Let's have some more.

What a beautiful morning it is. I'm always in awe of the 360 degree scenery from up here when it's like this in particular so really looking forward to getting one of the first lifts up this morning.

It's a good wintery-like morning this morning. Good and cold, fresh snow on the ground and snow still falling from the sky.

Good morning from Madarao and this morning there's a mix of white/grey cloud and blue sky over the mountain.

Light snow falling from early this morning up here with about 4cm so far with hopefully more building up this morning.